Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers
Shri Bhagwanth Khuba presents 11th National Petrochemicals Awards to winners
Minister of State for Chemicals & Fertilizers and New & Renewable Energy Shri Bhagwanth Khuba presented the 11th National Petrochemicals Awards at the function held at New Delhi today. Shri Arun Baroka, Secretary, Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals and Professor Shishir Sinha, Director General of CIPET also graced the occasion. Apart from the awardees and their family members, Senior Government officials and representatives of industries, academia and R&D institutions were also present.
Addressing the gathering Shri Khuba said that India has a huge potential in the field of petrochemicals. He informed that there is a potential of investment of Rs. 18 lakh crores in this sector till 2047. He further said that the industry has already committed in-principle to invest more than Rs. 6 lakh crores in this sector. The Minister also said that Chemicals and Petrochemicals sector is playing a pivotal role in giving boost to the Indian economy.
Shri Khuba further stated that today the world is looking towards India because it has capability, innovation, ease of doing business and Industry-friendly ecosystem. He added that India can do much innovation in Chemicals and Petrochemicals sector.
In line with the National Policy on Petrochemicals announced in April 2007, the Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals , Government of India has set up an Award Scheme to incentivize meritorious innovations and inventions in the field of polymeric materials, products, process areas of national and social importance. The ultimate objective is to develop and maintain the petrochemical industry as a globally competitive industry using eco-friendly processes & technologies. Central Institute of Petrochemicals Engineering and Technology , an autonomous organization under DCPC has been entrusted with the responsibility of implementing the scheme of the National Awards for Technology Innovation.
In the current edition of 11th National Petrochemicals Awards, 351 nominations have been received, and finally 05 nominations have been selected as Winners and 06 nominations as Runners-up and one for life time recognition.
The details of Winners are as given below:
Mr. Shivam Tiwari, Dr. Santanu Das and Dr. Pralay Maiti, Indian Institute of Technology  Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, for Low cost, Durable and Renewable Polymer Based Highly Efficient Adhesive for Metal-Ceramic Joints” under the category of “Innovation in Polymeric Materials.
Dr. Debdatta Ratna, Mr. Vijay Shankar Mishra and Mr. Rama Kant Kushwaha, Naval Materials Research Laboratory  Ambernath for “Development of 6” ball valve using dough molding compound based on chopped fiber-reinforced polymer composite for control of seawater flow in pipelines of Naval platforms” under the category of Innovation in Polymeric Products.
Dr. Roy Joseph, Ms. Gopika V. Gopan and Dr. Jayadevan E. R, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum for “Metal-free radiopaque polymeric material for the embolization of arteriovenous malformation of brain” under the category of Polymers in Medical and Pharmaceutical Applications.
Dr. Madhukar Onkarnath Garg, Reliance Industries Limited, Navi Mumbai for Recovery of High Purity Merchant Grade Benzene - A Primary Building Block for Petrochemical Industry and Simultaneous Production of Benzene-Lean Gasoline from Unprocessed Cracked Gasoline Fraction under the category of Innovation in Petrochemicals and Newer Polymer Applications.
Mr. Sujit Sharma, Rubber Technology Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur for Design and simulation of co-extrusion die for complex -shaped rubber profiles using a computational method under the category of Research in the field of Polymer Science &Technology .
The details of Runners-up are as given below:
Dr. Debmalya Roy, Defence Materials and Stores & Research and Development Establishment , DRDO, Kanpur for Hollow Porous Polymeric Nanocomposite Fibres for Mobile Water Filtration Cartridges and Dr. Tapan Kumar Mahato, Dr. R Baloji Naik, Mr. Nandkishor G Malvankar and Mr. Sushil S Pawar, Naval Materials Research Laboratory ,DRDO, Ambernath, Thane for Development of self-Cleaning Polydimethyl Siloxane, Epoxy Stratified Coating for Naval Application” under the category of Innovation in Polymeric Materials .
Mr. Avinash. R Pai and Prof. Dr. Sabu Thomas, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam for “Ultra-Fast Heat Dissipating Nanocellulose Aerogels to Absorb Excess Electromagnetic Radiations Emanating from Electronic Devices” under the category of
Innovation in Green Polymeric Materials & Products.
Mr. M. A Haseeb, WellWorth Polymers, Ernakulam for Patented - Mirror Finished Technology  under the category of Polymers in Agriculture and Water Conservation
Dr. Vivek Sharma, Baba Farid College Bathinda for “Eco-friendly, Green Method to obtain pure PET from Waste PET” under the category Innovation in Petrochemicals and Newer Polymer Applications.
Mr. Jeevi G, Department of Plastics Technology, CIPET-Institute of Petrochemicals Technology, Chennai for Development of novel hybridized joints using hybrid composite structure under the category of Research in the field of Polymer Science & Technology .
Life Time Recognition Award
Mr. Rajnikant Shroff, Founder and Chairman of UPL Limited, Mumbai received Life Time Recognition Award in the Field of Chemicals and Petrochemicals.
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